Hi, My question is off-topic, but I haven't succeeded to get an answer in any other way, so maybe somebody here can help:
Once a year, IDC publishes their estimation regarding the market size of "Packaged Software" (the reason they don't include non-packaged software, software projects, etc. is that it is hard to define and to measure, and its size depends on its definition; On the other hand, the term "Packaged Software" is clear). This number goes up by 10%-20% annually, and last time I saw it (2002) it estimated 2003 market of Packaged Software as $194B. IIRC, 2002 was $170B. No data about the exact segmentation is published. I guess that if you divide the market according to the UI of the software, MS Windows (GDI) is ranked first, followed by HTTP (web interface) which doubles itself annually and is going to pass MS Windows (only my own estimation). I also guess that the current market of web-based software is about $30B- $40B, and it will reach the $100B in several years. Can you find a more official data? If it's not IDC but Gartner/Forrester/Meta/whatever, it's OK too. In case there are two numbers - one of software with ONLY web interface and the second - of software which HTTP is ONE of its interfaces - please provide me with both numbers. Thanks, -- Eli Marmor [EMAIL PROTECTED] CTO, Founder Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd. __________________________________________________________ Tel.: +972-9-766-1020 8 Yad-Harutzim St. Fax.: +972-9-766-1314 P.O.B. 7004 Mobile: +972-50-23-7338 Kfar-Saba 44641, Israel ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
